"Millions for defense, but not a damned penny for tribute." - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney when asked for tribute by the Barbary Pirates Maybe we need to start

"Millions for defense, but not a damned penny for tribute." - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney when asked for tribute by the Barbary Pirates Maybe we need to start treating ransonware attacks more like this. Spend money on hardening targets. Also pursue an policy of economic sanctions against countries that tolerate these types of activities in their borders. Maybe we need to make it possible to quarantine countries from the rest of the Internet who abuse the commons.